page_title: Uckfield railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Uckfield railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: Uckfield railway station
context_page_description: Uckfield railway station is the southern terminus of a branch of the Oxted Line in England, serving the town of Uckfield, East Sussex. It is 46 miles 8 chains from London Bridge.
  The station and all trains that call are operated by Southern.
  The line used to continue to Lewes and Brighton until 1969.
context_section_description: The first station was opened in 1858 by the Lewes and Uckfield Railway Company and was situated south of the High Street level crossing. It became a through station when the line was extended to Tunbridge Wells West in 1868.
  With the closure of the line south to Lewes in 1969 the original station found itself stranded on the wrong side of a level crossing on the High Street which created traffic congestion whenever a train was arriving or departing from the station. The decision was therefore made to close the original station and to open a new station on the other side of the High Street level crossing. The present Uckfield station opened in 1991 replacing the original structure which was sited 55 yards (50 m) to the south. The original station was demolished on 9 December 2000 after it had been damaged by flooding.
  As part of Network Rail's national stations improvement programme, Uckfield received a new station building to replace the 1991 portakabin-type structure which was deemed "not fit for purpose". The new building was built to Network Rail's modular, pre-fabricated design used at Mitcham Eastfields and Greenhithe. The components for Uckfield's new station building - consisting of a ticket office, public toilet, staff accommodation, ticket hall and café - were manufactured by Britspace in Yorkshire and installed by contractors Bryen & Langley. The new building, which cost £750,000, was opened for passenger use on 16 March 2010.
caption: A postcard of the original station in the 1920s
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